Legal Opinion
Maz Partners LP v. Shear (In Re PHC, Inc. S'holder Litig.)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 2, 2018No. 17-1821PPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The briefs in this case read like a law school examination covering a curriculum that ranges from corporate law to the law of equitable remedies. The questions presented are intricate, entangled, and in some instances novel. The most important of them implicate Massachusetts law and include whether a non-majority shareholder who also serves as a director can, under certain circumstances, be deemed a controlling shareholder; what effect, if any, shareholder ratification may have with respect to a self-interested transaction; and whether-in the absence of economic…
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